Job Title: Cyber Threat Researcher
Location: Santa Barbara, CA or Remote

Job Summary:

The mission of the Cyber Threat Researcher (CTR) at MixMode is to support MixMode’s customers and the development of the MixMode platform from a security threat landscape perspective. The CTR is an expert in the cybersecurity field and, in particular, the current threat landscape. This knowledge is leveraged by MixMode product, marketing, and sales teams as well as our partners and customers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain continual posture of understanding, documenting, and educating MixMode on the current threat landscape.
• Research and discover emerging threats with a view towards helping craft MixMode’s approach to detect these threats.
• Serve as a company resource for education and proactive dissemination of cybersecurity industry news, events, and best practices.
• Work closely with the MixMode Product Management team to develop approaches to detection that align with the evolving threat landscape.
• Work closely with MixMode’s marketing team to develop messaging, blog posts, and other written artifacts that support MixMode’s approach to detecting evolving threats.
• Work closely with the MixMode Sales Engineering team to support the demonstration and discussion of our approaches to detecting these evolving threats.

What you’ll need to bring (job requirements):

• Significant experience in cybersecurity and/or networking technology domains.
• Familiarity with various cybersecurity exploitation tools and methodologies, common malware families, and antivirus evasion techniques.
• Experience with modeling and demonstrating cybersecurity exploits in a lab environment for demonstration purposes.
• Working knowledge of industry frameworks (MITRE, Cyber Killchain etc.).
• CISSP or other security qualifications desired (not required).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to articulate technical knowledge without technical jargon.
• Creativity, positivity, and the ability to think critically and problem solve.
• Experience working with virtualized environments (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).
• Experience working with networking technologies such as SPAN & TAP.
• Experience working with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GPC etc.).
• Educated in technology, computer science. B.S. in technical degree preferred.

Other things we’d love to see (nice-to-haves):

• Passion and focus on cybersecurity.
• Dedication to client service. Motivated by exceeding expectations and solving tough technical problems.
• Positivity, willingness, and a can-do attitude.
• Initiative – able to act without being told what to do. Finding answers to problems
• Independently and bringing new ideas to your client interactions.
• Multitasking - able to handle interruptions, changing priorities and multiple tasks in a calm and professional manner.
• Avid learner – our product is always evolving and so your technical knowledge must be too.
• High-energy and proven level of high performance in previous studies or professional work.
• Ability to shift focus, multi-task, and help solve problems for a number of clients in a sequential fashion.
• Ability to perform repetitive detailed technical tests in a high-velocity, constantly busy, and demanding environment.

About MixMode:

MixMode is an AI cybersecurity organization which is the first to bring a third-wave, context-aware AI approach that automatically learns and adapts to dynamically changing environments. MixMode’s platform better understands network behavior as it adapts to baseline changes and enables both misuse detection and anomaly detection, as well as predictive maintenance. Used by enterprises and MSSPs for real-time network analysis, threat hunting and incident response, the platform leverages continuous stream monitoring and retrospection to provide network forensics and security analytics. Security teams can integrate MixMode into their orchestration engine, SIEM, or use MixMode independently to dramatically reduce false positive alerts and the resources required to respond to persistent threats, malware, insider attacks and nation state espionage efforts.

Our primary office is located in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara along the beautiful California coast. Although we do have a physical office available, our employees enjoy a remote-first work culture that promotes work-life balance, inclusivity, autonomy, and trust.

Compensation and benefits are competitive based on industry standards. Benefits for full-time team members include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life and AD&D
• Voluntary Life
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid Holidays
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)

Please note that MixMode does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of MixMode.

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